My research shows that chess created a space in which players – regardless of their skin colour – could engage as equals.

World Champion D Gukesh played out another draw with Nodirbek Yakubboev of Uzbekistan, while defending champion Aravindh Chithambaram pulled a rabbit out of the hat to beat Hans Moke Niemann of the ...

CHARLESTON — When he was 3 years old, Sav Strickland played his first game of chess. He spotted a board while at a coffee shop with his dad and ran to grab it, begging to set it up. His father, ...

Shreyas became Britain's youngest Chess Grandmaster at the age of 15 In a silent school hall on the Isle of Wight the air is thick with tension. Faces twitch nervously, feet shake vigorously under ...

Daniel Naroditsky competes in a chess tournament in New York in December 2024. (Lennart Ootes / Getty Images) A recent medical examiner's report revealed the probable cause of death for 29-year-old ...

Daniel Naroditsky, one of the world’s greatest chess champions and a coach at the Charlotte Chess Center, died of cardiac arrhythmia, or an abnormal heartbeat, after ingesting methamphetamine and ...

US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky had a mix of dangerous drugs in his system at the time of his mysterious death last year, according to a medical examiner’s report. The report obtained by The ...

A cause of death has been determined for chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, who passed away suddenly in October of 2025. According to TMZ, Naroditsky died of accidental poisoning after ingesting a ...

With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? Trainor tells haters she 'Still Don't Care,' with new album and tour Inside GM's new world headquarters: Modernized ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — On a recent fall afternoon, a group of students at Malcolm C. Hursey Montessori Elementary leaned over a chessboard, their eyes fixed on coach Susan Key as she pointed at each piece ...

While we may be used to the spectator sports of Bloomsday, Hoopfest or Gonzaga basketball, the halls of the Spokane Convention Center are giving way this weekend to something a little less... loud.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A battle of wits in championship proportion comes to the Spokane Convention Center December 11-14. The country's top chess playing students, from kindergarten to 12th grade will ...